Post by Paddy by Grace on Mar 29, 2009 9:05:41 GMT -7
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Local 'crusades' drawing thousands to ChristAllie Martin - OneNewsNow - 3/27/2009 6:40:00 AM
More than 300,000 people in Brazil gave their lives to Christ as part of a recent evangelistic campaign by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
The campaign is known as "My Hope" and works like a mini-crusade, but without mass meetings. Bill Conard, vice president of international ministries with the BGEA, explains how My Hope works.
"We work with thousands of pastors and train them how to teach their people to invite friends, family, and neighbors into their homes to watch three evangelistic television programs," he says.
Those programs feature a message by either Billy Graham or his son, Franklin Graham. The host then gives a personal testimony and an opportunity for others to accept Christ.
Conard says the biggest challenge is finding and contacting all of the evangelical churches in an area. But the outreaches, he says, have a far-reaching and lasting impact.
"In Mexico we had the My Hope project, and the national leaders decided to have a national day of baptism on Easter Sunday," he shares. "And as best we could contact thousands of churches and find out what happened, have record of over 37,000 people who were baptized on that Easter Sunday two years ago."
The My Hope outreach takes place this year in Thailand and also in a closed country in Asia.
Local 'crusades' drawing thousands to ChristAllie Martin - OneNewsNow - 3/27/2009 6:40:00 AM
More than 300,000 people in Brazil gave their lives to Christ as part of a recent evangelistic campaign by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
The campaign is known as "My Hope" and works like a mini-crusade, but without mass meetings. Bill Conard, vice president of international ministries with the BGEA, explains how My Hope works.
"We work with thousands of pastors and train them how to teach their people to invite friends, family, and neighbors into their homes to watch three evangelistic television programs," he says.
Those programs feature a message by either Billy Graham or his son, Franklin Graham. The host then gives a personal testimony and an opportunity for others to accept Christ.
Conard says the biggest challenge is finding and contacting all of the evangelical churches in an area. But the outreaches, he says, have a far-reaching and lasting impact.
"In Mexico we had the My Hope project, and the national leaders decided to have a national day of baptism on Easter Sunday," he shares. "And as best we could contact thousands of churches and find out what happened, have record of over 37,000 people who were baptized on that Easter Sunday two years ago."
The My Hope outreach takes place this year in Thailand and also in a closed country in Asia.